Tag: pygmy right whale

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 15:35 UTC

  The elusive pygmy right whale in the Southern Hemisphere, “a living fossil”

  

  The pygmy right whale, a mysterious and elusive creature that rarely comes to shore, is the last living relative of an ancient group of whales long believed to be extinct, a new study suggests. The findings, published last month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, may help to explain why the enigmatic marine mammals look so different from any other living whale.